The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-08-05
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A railroad IL to be built from Highmore,
Dakota, running southwest to Pierre.
The Riverside Iron and Steel company, Of
Cincinnati, has made an assignment.
John Nears killed his father at Falmouth.
Kentucky, in . dispute over the division Of
crops.
Alonzo Lick, atty.seven years old, com.
mitted suicide by shooting, at Omaha, on Fri.
day.
A mob lynched Reuben johnson (colored)
Of Atlanta, on Wednesday, for rape ON a
white woman.
A iue lot OF blooded horses and cattle has
been purchased for the Dakota Agricultural
College at Brooktngs.
Aheavy rainfall, with lightning and hail,
visited Redfeld, Dakota, on Saturday. No
serious damage was done.
j.. g. Potter, . former living near Kimball,
Dakota, was kicked in the stomach by one of
hts horses on Friday, causing instant death.
The Farmers' Alliance, at their meeting at
Huron, Dakota, on Saturday, asked the rail-
road commissioners to enforce the warehouse
Law.
The Philips boy, who was shot In the head
BY the cowboys Of Sells circus during the
recent performance at Clinton, Iowa. died
Monday.
The Wholesale clothing house of H. c. Bur
bank, at st. Paul, was partially destroyed by
fire Friday night. Loss, 500, 600; insured for
two-thirds.
Armour's new beef house at the Chicago
stock yards was destroyed by fire on Wedncs.
day evening. Loss, 100000: insurance,
tls5, Goa.
R. p. Clement, president of Citizens Say.
ings bank of Leavenworth, Kansas, is a dc.
faultcr and has skipped. The amount Of the
defalcation is not yet known.
Duringa heavy thunderstorm al Pierre,
Dakota, Sunday night, Charles Hurst, of Fort
Pierre, was struck by lightning and Killed.
He leaves a wife and five small children.
The collision near Hopcdalc, Illinois
Wednesday, on the Chicago and Alton, re-
suited IL the death OF at least twelve persons
and thirty injured, most of them slightly.
The Memihis cannon ball train on the Iron
Mountain road ran over a COW, dcrailing the
whole train and killing Engineer Alexander
Hamilton. Passengers escaped scrious injury
Daniel Bates, an 1owa farmer from Beard,
Guthrie county, was found druggcd in an
alley in Omaha, on Friday night, with an arm
broken. When resuscitated he reported that
he had been robbed of &147,
A terrific thunder and lightning storm, ac.
companied by heavy hail, occurred at Great
Falls. Montana, Monday. 1t was the sever
est ever known. Much live stock was killed
and injured, and many houses damaged.
Bob Jones, an aged colorci man living in
Sunhowcr county, Louisiana, was brutally
murdered by his son-in-lsw, Theo. Martin,
while trying to prevent the latter from whip.
ping his wife on Monday. Martin was sum
marily lynchcd.
At Montrose, Colorado, Mrs. Heath went to
a neighbours Friday morning, leaving three
small boys alone in the house. The bows
tried to light q fire and set fire to the house,
which was consumed and two of the children
burned to death.
SD. Lyster, a good-looking, wcll.dresscd
man, was arrested at Omaha Monday night,
for "shovtng the quccr.n He has been at
different towns in Nebraska passing counter
felt one and five dollar bills, and had I ycnty
1 NnvI0R Mt tho ct,,f ~,. Al.
rested.
1t ts announced that DR.. w. +. Stepnett.
assistant to the general manager Of the
Northwestern road, has been appointed audi
tor of expenditures, a newly created office. tn
have supervision Of all such matters as pa,
rolls and vouchers. His former Office is
abolished.
Gen. j. NJ. Comfy, editor and proprietor of
the Toledo, Ohio, Commercial, died at 10
O'Clock Tuesday night OF heart and lung
trouble. Gen. Comfy had q brilliant record
in the army, and after the war bccsm. editor
OF the Ohio State Journal. From 1871 to 1852
inclusive he was n~llnistcr to the Sandwich
Islands.
The murderer, shellcnberger, who killed his
daughter, II years old, in April, 1856, and
Who, 1t is thought, is guilty of other murders,
was dragged out in the court yard at Ncbras.
ka City on Sunday morning about 3 or
O'Clock, and hanged, by a masked mob. II.
died with a curse on his lips, saying, 81 will
haunt you II l can"
A collision occurred at Knob Lick. Mis-
souri,, about 4 O'Clock Thursday morning be.
tween " freight trains, resulting in tile
death of three men. Engineer Eustis, Fire.
man Widy and a brakeman, whose name
could not be learned, were the victims. A
mistake in the orders given was the cause of
the accident.
Matte johnson, a Swede domestic. at
Omaha, gave birth to q male infant Monday
evening, and smothered 1t iu a lot of clothes.
She threw 1t behind a trunk, where It was
found shortly afterward. The girl did her
work rs usual up to the time. She denied the
maternity of the child, but tainted while SO
doing. She was placed under arrest.
Adit.Gen. Tyler has located the next Dakota
militia encampment in Huron, and dcsiy.
mated the first eight days in September as the
date for 1t, beginning Thursday the LIST. The
most complete arrangements are being per-
fccted for the meeting, some of which will re.
suit In relieving soldiers from some of the
duties which hare hitherto been irksomc to
them.
Specials show that the storm of Monday
night was usually severe and destructive in
Dakota and Minnesota. Many dwellings and